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​Hearst Acquires Print, Digital and Local Media Assets of 21st Century Media Newspaper, LLC, Including the New Haven Register

Published on 06.05.17

Acquisition Expands Hearst Newspapers’ Stable of News Properties to 22 Dailies and 64 Weeklies Across the U.S.

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NEW
YORK, June 5, 2017 – Hearst today announced that it has
acquired the Connecticut print and digital assets of 21st Century
Media Newspaper, LLC, a Digital First Media company. The acquisition includes
three daily newspapers—New Haven Register,
The Middletown Press and The Register Citizen—as well as eight
weekly newspapers, niche publications and Connecticut
Magazine. The announcement was made by Hearst President and CEO Steven R.
Swartz and Hearst Newspapers President Mark Aldam. Financial terms were not
disclosed.

Aldam commented: “This investment strengthens
Hearst Newspapers’ commitment to local communities in Connecticut, and expands
Hearst’s local media presence to eight daily titles, 11 weeklies and a robust
collection of digital outlets within the state. The New Haven Register has a rich tradition for high-quality community
journalism dating back to the Jackson family ownership era. By connecting our
current Connecticut media assets across Fairfield County with the New Haven
Register group, we expect to advance enterprise journalism across southern
Connecticut.”

The new properties, which have a combined
weekly circulation of more than 470,000 households and a monthly digital reach
of 1.4 million unique visitors, will become part of Hearst Newspapers’
Connecticut Media Group.

The New
Haven Register was founded in 1812, The
Middletown Press in 1878 and The
Register Citizen in 1889. Throughout the history of these publications, the
papers have come to be trusted sources of news across the more than 19 towns
and cities in New Haven, Middlesex and Litchfield counties.

Paul Barbetta, group publisher and president of
the Hearst Connecticut Media Group, will oversee business and news operations
for the acquired properties.

About
Hearst

Hearst is one of the nation's largest
diversified media, information and services companies with more than 360
businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks
such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; majority ownership of global
ratings agency Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and
services businesses; 30 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and
KCRA-TV in Sacramento, Calif., which reach a combined 19 percent of U.S.
viewers; newspapers such as the Houston
Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle
and Albany Times Union, nearly 300
magazines around the world including Cosmopolitan,
ELLE, Harper'sBAZAAR and Car and Driver;
digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in
emerging digital and video companies such as BuzzFeed, Vice, Complex Networks
and AwesomenessTV. Follow us on Twitter @HearstLive and @Hearst, and subscribe to Hearstlink.

About
Hearst Newspapers

Hearst Newspapers is the operating group
responsible for Hearst’s newspapers, local digital marketing services
businesses and directories. With more than 4,000 employees across the nation,
Hearst Newspapers publishes 22 dailies and 64 weeklies, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, San
Antonio Express-News and Albany Times
Union. It also operates digital marketing services and directories
businesses under the LocalEdge brand.